The Creative Capital of Cities

Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation

• Author(s): Stefan Krätke,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 264
• ISBN_10: 1444342258
  ISBN_13: 9781444342253
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology / Urban , Science / Earth Sciences / Geography ,

Description:... This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.

• Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class
• Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions, Hanover and Berlin
• Underscores that the culture industry takes a leading role in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of labor markets